Brainwashed – the history of mind control

What comes to mind when you think about brainwashing? The Manchurian Candidate? Uighur re-education camps? QAnon? Historian and psychoanalyst Daniel Pick unpicks the nuanced trajectory of thought control since the Cold War era and argues that it might be happening closer to home than we suspect.

Guest:

Daniel Pick – Psychoanalyst and Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. Author of Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control published in Australia by Allen & Unwin.